Seventh-day Adventism, thy name is Babylon—Confusion!
Quote ~The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Christ
Three essentials of the Christian faith
Jul 03, 2013 | Elias Brasil de Souza
In recent times, the popular media and the academic world have turned special attention to Jesus. Movies, television documentaries, journal and newspaper articles have become vehicles of debates and diffusion of matters regarding Jesus, such as His passion, His tomb, and His family.
Unfortunately, many of these efforts to understand Jesus have largely been undertaken out of mere academic interest or popular curiosity, and within a skeptical mindset. For Seventh-day Adventists, however, Jesus is not a mere object of academic research or sheer curiosity. Indeed, Jesus is at the center of the Adventist message in His work to redeem the fallen creation. So it is not surprising that one of our fundamental beliefs deals with the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.
Undoing the Damage
Indeed, the life, death, and resurrection of Christ are three interconnected dimensions of our Savior’s work in the plan of salvation. Coming to this world to tread the path once trodden by our forefathers, Christ lived a life of perfect obedience to God’s law and exemplified in His relationships and actions toward others the infinite and perfect love of God (Heb. 4:15). The Lord undid in the wilderness what Adam and Eve had done in the Garden of Eden. Although tempted by Satan after a 40-day fast, Jesus remained faithful and loyal to the Word of God (Matt. 4:1-11; Mark 1:12, 13; Luke 4:1-13). As the embodiment of the new Israel, Christ also obtained victory where Israel had failed (notice that His responses to Satan are drawn from Deuteronomy passages dealing with Israel’s unfaithfulness in the wilderness). Quote part end
According to Adventism (a.t.A.),
‘~the life, death, and resurrection of Christ are three interconnected dimensions of our Savior’s work in the plan of salvation~’ --- not three whole interconnected successive historic days of our Savior’s work in the plan of salvation. The first and second of the “three days” the True Witness referred to during his life, a.t.A., were one day, ‘Friday’, on which He was Crucified and Died and was Buried before sunset: so that, a.t.A., the second of the “three days” becomes ‘Still Saturday’ and “the third day Christ rose again” a.t.A., becomes ‘Sunday’.
According to Adventism,
Quote ~Coming to this world to tread the path once trodden by our forefathers, Christ lived a life of perfect obedience to God’s law and exemplified in His relationships and actions toward others the infinite and perfect love of God (Heb. 4:15).~’
No! Coming to this world to UNDO what Adam and Eve had done in the Garden of Eden and destroy the path once trodden by our forefathers, Christ lived a life of perfect obedience to God’s law and exemplified the infinite and perfect love of God in His relationships and actions toward others. By means of God’s Law the LORD in the wilderness only began to “PREPARE” for “The Way”, Jesus Christ who unlike our forefathers who lost the way so quickly, remained faithful and loyal to the Word of God although after a 40-day fast He was tempted by Satan to be unfaithful.
Not as a.t.A. ‘~As the embodiment of the new Israel~’, but, as the embodiment of God Almighty, Jesus Christ and not us ‘~as the new Israel~’, obtained victory where Israel had failed as also our forefathers had failed as also Adam had failed.
Seventh-day Adventism, thy name is Babylon!
Quote ~The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Christ
Three essentials of the Christian faith
Jul 03, 2013 | Elias Brasil de Souza
In recent times, the popular media and the academic world have turned special attention to Jesus. Movies, television documentaries, journal and newspaper articles have become vehicles of debates and diffusion of matters regarding Jesus, such as His passion, His tomb, and His family.
Unfortunately, many of these efforts to understand Jesus have largely been undertaken out of mere academic interest or popular curiosity, and within a skeptical mindset. For Seventh-day Adventists, however, Jesus is not a mere object of academic research or sheer curiosity. Indeed, Jesus is at the center of the Adventist message in His work to redeem the fallen creation. So it is not surprising that one of our fundamental beliefs deals with the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.
Undoing the Damage
Indeed, the life, death, and resurrection of Christ are three interconnected dimensions of our Savior’s work in the plan of salvation. Coming to this world to tread the path once trodden by our forefathers, Christ lived a life of perfect obedience to God’s law and exemplified in His relationships and actions toward others the infinite and perfect love of God (Heb. 4:15). The Lord undid in the wilderness what Adam and Eve had done in the Garden of Eden. Although tempted by Satan after a 40-day fast, Jesus remained faithful and loyal to the Word of God (Matt. 4:1-11; Mark 1:12, 13; Luke 4:1-13). As the embodiment of the new Israel, Christ also obtained victory where Israel had failed (notice that His responses to Satan are drawn from Deuteronomy passages dealing with Israel’s unfaithfulness in the wilderness). Quote part end
According to Adventism (a.t.A.),
‘~the life, death, and resurrection of Christ are three interconnected dimensions of our Savior’s work in the plan of salvation~’ --- not three whole interconnected successive historic days of our Savior’s work in the plan of salvation. The first and second of the “three days” the True Witness referred to during his life, a.t.A., were one day, ‘Friday’, on which He was Crucified and Died and was Buried before sunset: so that, a.t.A., the second of the “three days” becomes ‘Still Saturday’ and “the third day Christ rose again” a.t.A., becomes ‘Sunday’.
According to Adventism,
Quote ~Coming to this world to tread the path once trodden by our forefathers, Christ lived a life of perfect obedience to God’s law and exemplified in His relationships and actions toward others the infinite and perfect love of God (Heb. 4:15).~’
No! Coming to this world to UNDO what Adam and Eve had done in the Garden of Eden and destroy the path once trodden by our forefathers, Christ lived a life of perfect obedience to God’s law and exemplified the infinite and perfect love of God in His relationships and actions toward others. By means of God’s Law the LORD in the wilderness only began to “PREPARE” for “The Way”, Jesus Christ who unlike our forefathers who lost the way so quickly, remained faithful and loyal to the Word of God although after a 40-day fast He was tempted by Satan to be unfaithful.
Not as a.t.A. ‘~As the embodiment of the new Israel~’, but, as the embodiment of God Almighty, Jesus Christ and not us ‘~as the new Israel~’, obtained victory where Israel had failed as also our forefathers had failed as also Adam had failed.
Seventh-day Adventism, thy name is Babylon!
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